When the will is enslaved to a desire, it will in turn enslave the mind.
DALLAS WILLARDThe truly powerful ideas are precisely the ones that never have to justify themselves.
More Dallas Willard Quotes
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The kingdom of God is the true ecology of the human soul.
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The main thing God gets out of your life is not the achievements you accomplish. It’s the person you become.
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God’s address is at the end of your rope.
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The Great Commission is still the mission statement of the Church.
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Our failure to hear His voice when we want to is due to the fact that we do not in general want to hear it, that we want it only when we think we need it.
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The different parts of the automobile like the ignition switch, the various buttons, the steering wheel – the interfaces between the driver and the machine – is our spirit or heart.
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Kingdom obedience is kingdom abundance.
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Discipleship is the process of becoming who Jesus would be if he were you.
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“Spirituality” wrongly understood or pursued is a major source of human misery and rebellion against God.
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This life is not something that is imposed upon us; we receive it and work with it.
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The hardest thing about leadership is the intimacy it requires.
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Feelings are good servants, but they are disastrous masters.
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There is no avoiding the fact that we live at the mercy of our ideas This is never more true than with our ideas about God.
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I’m practicing the discipline of not having to have the last word.
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Belief is when your whole being is set to act as if something is so.
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A carefully cultivated heart will, assisted by the grace of God, foresee, forestall, or transform most of the painful situations before which others stand like helpless children saying “Why?
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God does not ‘love’ us without liking us.
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Disciples are those who have been so ravished with Christ that others want to be like them.
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The most important thing in your life is not what you do; it’s who you become. That’s what you will take into eternity.
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It’s very difficult to be right about something without hurting someone with it.
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Sometimes we get caught up in trying to glorify God by praising what He can do and we lose sight of the practical point of what He actually does do.
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Your mind will really talk to you when you begin to deny fulfillment to your desires, and you will find how subtle and shameless it is.
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The greatest challenge the church faces today is to be authentic disciples of Jesus.
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The ultimate freedom we have as human beings is the power to select what we will allow or require our minds to dwell upon.
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Discipline, strictly speaking, is activity carried on to prepare us indirectly for some activity other than itself. We do not practice the piano to practice the piano well, but to play it well.
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It would be strange if we came to shun the genuine simply because it resembled the counterfeit.
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